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"Virtual Neighborhood Watch" Moving Ahead
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Houston Chronicle -- March 20
State seeks proposals for border cameras
Texas is seeking bids for a video camera network on the Mexican border, similar to an earlier state pilot program that allowed the public to help spot illegal activity on the Internet.
Gov. Rick Perry's emergency management division calls it a "virtual border neighborhood watch" designed to help crack down on drug running, human trafficking and other crime along the 1,200-mile border between the state and Mexico. [...]
"Unfortunately, in this case the wheels of government have turned slowly," she (Perry spokeswoman Allison Castle) said. |
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Associated Press sc
Nine restaurant workers arrested on illegal immigration charges
Nine workers at an Italian restaurant have been arrested on immigration charges after federal officials got information about [illegal alien] employees, The Charlotte Observer reported Friday. -- U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents arrested the workers at an Olive Garden restaurant Thursday afternoon...  |
KRGV-TV -- Weslaco, Texas
Chase ends in crash at supermarket
A chase with an alleged human smuggler just ended in a crash in Mission. -- The driver has been arrested. -- e're told the chase started near Sullivan City. That's where Border Patrol first spotted the vehicle. Agents later requested help from Mission police... |
Poughkeepsie (New York) Journal
Illegal alien arrested for stabbing his brother, police say
A Brewster man was arrested Thursday on assault charges for allegedly stabbing his younger brother and was later discovered to be an illegal immigrant, the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office said. -- Rony Ramirez and Gabriel Ramirez were drinking alcohol with their friends on Main Street in the Village of Brewster... |
KRGV-TV -- Weslaco, Texas
Chase ends in crash at supermarket
A chase with an alleged human smuggler just ended in a crash in Mission. -- The driver has been arrested. -- We're told the chase started near Sullivan City. That's where Border Patrol first spotted the vehicle. Agents later requested help from Mission police... |
USA Today
Iraqi aides hope for new life in America
...Advocacy and lawmakers have criticized Washington's record of admitting Iraqis into the United States. They say the Bush administration has a moral obligation to Iraqis — especially those who have worked with U.S. troops — but only a tiny fraction have made it into America... |
Chicago Sun-Times
State to adjust test immigrants must take
Illinois education officials Thursday agreed to tweak the state achievement test that next year's immigrant high school juniors will face, but local officials said the changes amounted to "putting lipstick on a pig.'' -- The state School Board's actions came just weeks before public school juniors who are still learning English are... |
Boston Globe
Some say illegals can get licenses too easily in Maine
Portland, Maine -- Authorities nabbed the first group in September 2006, illegal [aliens] from Poland and Peru cruising down Washington Avenue, all of them in town to apply for Maine driver's licenses. The next month, authorities arrested another group. Last month, they caught a third. |
The New American
Two more states take a stand on the North American Union
Although it is more difficult to get state resolutions introduced and passed in even-numbered years due to fewer states being in session and election-year shortened schedules, the state legislatures in Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Utah have been considering anti-NAU, repeal NAFTA... |
Gary Wood -- Nolan Chart
NAFTA Superhighways; Comical or reality?
Last August, during the third annual Security and Prosperity Partnership meeting, President Bush denounced the possibility of NAFTA superhighways or a North American Union. "It's quite comical, actually, when you realize the difference between reality and what some people are talking on TV about," was Bush's reply... |
Las Cruces (New Mexico) Sun-News
Palomas police chief flees border town; asks for political asylum
The embattled city of Palomas, Mexico, is now literally lawless. -- The Luna County Sheriff's Office and U.S. Border Patrol reported Thursday that the Palomas Chief of Police came to the Columbus Port of Entry late Tuesday night, requesting political asylum. |
KIII-TV -- Corpus Christi
More bailouts in Nueces County
One Nueces County Constable says pickup trucks caring illegal [aliens] is becoming a daily occurrence. Deputies say Wednesday night's high speed pursuit that began as a routine traffic stop, which ended in a bailout, shows just how far these human traffickers are willing to go in an attempt to get away... |
Associated Press
Man charged with e-mailing threat to Maryland's governor
Annapolis, Md. -- His wife says Walter Abbott was upset about losing construction work to illegal [aliens]. -- Whatever it was he wrote to Maryland's governor about the matter, it got him tossed in jail. -- Maryland State police say Abbott is being held on $2 million bail after allegedly sending a threatening e-mail... |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Driving without license felony under House bill
Driving without a license could become a felony under a bill that passed the Georgia House on Thursday. -- The words "illegal immigrant" were never mentioned during the 27-minute debate on Senate Bill 350, but lawmakers got the message anyway... |
The Suburban -- Montreal, Quebec
Citizens in Action examine the SPP
The Security and Prosperity Partnership between the three North American nations is “an organization of mice, presided by a cat,” says constitutional rights lawyer Julius Grey. -- At a Citizens in Action conference at Concordia last week, Grey expressed concerns over how free trade and security deals are negotiated... |
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MooreIsBetter.com
Dump the Mexican Reconquista L. A. mayor
Los Angeles can and should be the envy of the world. Instead, our city is a mess, and it gets worse each month. We can't afford four more years of a mayor who spends all his time running for the next office, staging photo-ops and going on out- of- town trips. We need a competent, full-time working mayor... |
Associated Press
New immigration boss in Arizona plans to focus on illegal hirings
Phoenix -- The new leader of a federal immigration agency in Arizona says that a key element in his plans to confront the state's border woes is cracking down on employers who knowingly hire illegal [aliens]. -- Matthew Allen, the new chief of investigations for ICE in Arizona, says illegal [aliens] would be less likely to... |
Dallas Morning News
Farmers Branch officer to get immigration law training
Farmers Branch officials expect to soon have a detective trained under the federal 287(g) program to identify illegal [aliens] and begin deportation proceedings. -- The city had sought such training for a jail officer but has been waiting nearly 1½ years without receiving approval, Police Chief Sid Fuller said. |
Connecticut Post -- Bridgeport
Arrest made in Stratford license forging
The owner of a driving school was arrested this morning for allegedly cranking out forged documents so illegal immigrants could obtain driver's licenses. -- Henry Kruszewski, 57, the owner and operator of the Express Driving School, 3272 Main St., surrendered at State Police Troop G headquarters in Bridgeport... |
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